The package introduces commands \vref and \vpageref . The \vref command refers to labels in the same way as does \ref , but if the thing referred to is on a different page, the result will be decorated with “on the facing page” or “on page <n>”, and so on, as appropriate. The \vpageref command similarly decorates a page number; there are also commands \vrefrange and \vpagerefrange for ranges of labels.

The package is language-sensitive, and has definitions for its ‘decorative’ words in several languages.

The package is part of the tools bundle in the LaTeX required distribution.